Compassion Bridges is grateful for the incredible outpouring of support to train and equip students and uplift hurting families in the Bay Area. Our vision and dream continues on to reach out to marginalized families, refugees, and youth and college students through public school outreach events, leadership training seminars and special family and refugee outreach programs. The needs are great and the pressures and anxieties students and families are facing here are real. We are honored to be a small source of hope and blessings to so many others with your prayers and support.

Student Outreaches 2024-2025

Many of us are aware that COVID adversely affected the mental and even physical health of our young people. The isolation, remote learning, lack of good healthy human contact still weighs heavily on our children. Compassion Bridges has been invited into numerous universities and high schools to speak to groups of students and encourage them after these difficult times. We spoke at several outreaches in Spring and Fall of 2024 and will continue to speak at and support outreaches on public schools. We believe that community, friendship and faith can help bring hope and health back to these hurting young people. Thousands of students have heard a strong message of hope and faith in overcoming their feelings of depression, anxiety, suicide, eating disorders and their overall lack of hope. In just one school we supported over 260 students came to 2 days of outreach and 20 accepted Christ for the 1st time and another 30 students rededicated their lives to God. AMEN!!!

Bay Area Unite 2025

Compassion Bridges helped sponsor a large outreach event being led by university and high school students on April 25, 2025 hoping to reach several thousand students with powerful messages of hope, faith and love. Since Fall of 2024 over 60 students have gathered to pray, plan and dream about revival not just in our area but around the US and world. Over 1800 students and leaders came out on April 25th to Revival in the Bay and 1000 students stood up and came forward to say yes to Jesus. AMEN!

Afghan Refugee Outreach 2021-2025

In Fall of 2021 Compassion Bridges began a new work in the Bay Area bringing together churches, leaders and non-profits to serve the coming surge of Afghan refugees after the US pull-out. Fremont, CA just 20 minutes north of San Jose is largest hub of Afghans in the United States so many refugees were resettled in the Silicon Valley. Keivan Tehrani (Compassion Bridges Co-Founder and Executive Director) was an immigrant from Iran to the US in 1982 because of the Iran/Iraq war that began in 1980. He has worked with numerous refugee families in the past and speaks the Farsi/Dari language that Afghans use. He understands some of the major snuggles refugees and immigrants from that region face. Strategically it is very important in coordinating efforts and understanding the needs of these refugees here and possibly many more who will come in the future. In December 2021, CB co-sponsored an event to train 140 Bay Area leaders who desired to work among Afghans Refugees. From 2022-2024 along side of many churches, non-profits and resettlement groups like the IRC and JFSSV we did extensive work with over 700 Afghans to be a source of hope, healing and grace for these hurting families who went through so much pain and loss to get here. We are also working through personal contacts within Afghanistan to help extremely impoverished families there with bags of food, heating oil, wood and encouragements to get them through this difficult time. Hundreds of families we have worked with have now been settled into homes, townhomes and apartments. We helped many of them move and get furniture or other essential household items. We are continuing to meet with them in friendship, to deliver food at times, invite them to outreaches, help them get better jobs and also help them get their drivers licenses and even good used cars. Contact us if you want to volunteer, have any housing connections where we can get reduced rent, or know of people who have extra space in their homes or a detached in-law unit or want to donate gift cards or financial gifts to help the hurting families. You can also donate any vehicle in good working condition and receive a full tax-deductible donation letter for its full value.

East Side San Jose COVID Family Outreach 2020-2023

Because of Covid-19 and school restrictions Compassion Bridges added a monthly feeding program in East San Jose in collaboration with the Alum Rock School district and East Side Union High School District and other non-profits. Starting in May 2020 we partnered local businesses, individuals and other other non-profits to come along side hurting families in need. Since May ’20 we have served over 2500+ families with bags of groceries as well as additional grocery store gift cards, and encouragements to help them through this difficult time. For this season we have adapted our work to serve students and our community hit hard by job losses, depression, and lack of resources to provide for their families. Thank-you for coming along side of our work to bring hope to so many

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